best advice gets a chocolate bun

i have installed osx on a g4 powerbook, installed classic, partitioned the hd, the hd (i thought) contained no operating system, i then installed os9,2 on the partition to run logic audio. i then went to system preferences to change startup disk to my partition and....no partition showed up!!

anyone know why, also i cant use os9 as a startup disk (holding c).

i had good advice on a previous thread about a closely related issue but im trying to avoid doing that and im also trying to get my head round it.

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